The potential of conductive waveguides for nulling interferometry

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1435-1444

  Wehmeier, Udo J ^a   Swain, Mark R ^b   Drouët d'Aubigny, Christian Y ^a   Golish, Dathon ^a   Walker, Christopher K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Interferometry; Nulling; TPF

Indexed keywords

MISALIGNMENT; NULLING; TPF;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POLARIZATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 11144253439     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.549954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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